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Ras ate hanut is a North African spice blend used in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco mainly by Arabs and Jews. The name, translated from Arabic, means store manager and means a mixture of the best spices that the seller can offer to his customers.
Usually the mix consists of about 30 types of spices. However, there is no exact and strict recipe for making the mixture. Each trader, manufacturer or family compiles its own mixture.
Commonly used ingredients include: cardamom, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, dried ginger, hot peppers, coriander seeds, pepper, sweet and hot red pepper, fenugreek and dried turmeric.
In different regions they add some of their most typical spices to the mixture. There are many variations. The ingredients are usually baked, then crushed with a mortar and finally mixed together. In some mixes they put salt or sugar, but this happens very rarely.
Garlic, saffron, nuts or dried herbs are usually not included in the composition of the mixture, as they are usually added individually to dishes, but some commercial mixes (especially in Europe and North America) may contain them.
Ras ate hanut usually used for rice dishes, meat dishes and also for spreading lamb. It can be found even in some sweet dishes.
In the past, ingredients such as St. John's wort were sometimes included in Ras el Hanut to use the mixture as an aphrodisiac. Cantaridis (Spanish fly) is derived from a specific type of dried manure beetle. It is known as an aphrodisiac because it has the ability to irritate the genital tract, causing blood to the genitals. However, it has not been used as an ingredient in Ras el Hanut for a long time, as the sale of cantharidis was banned in Morocco in 1990.
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